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The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at…
The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at Dunstan's-West and published in answer to the accusations of some and the desires of others / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R. White for F. Tyton, 1662
THE Mischief of Self-ignorance, AND Benefit of Self-acquaintance. › Part
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Doth the name of a christian, and the heartless use of outward ordinances, and that good esteem of others, now go for Godliness and saving grace? The Autumn is at hand, when these leaves will all lie in ⟨p. 192⟩the dirt, and will go for fruit no longer.
Doth the name of a christian, and the heartless use of outward ordinances, and that good esteeme of others, now goe for Godlyness and saving grace? The Autumne is at hand, when these leaves will all lie in ⟨p. 192⟩the dirt, and will goe for fruit no longer.
Do you take it now for true Religion to be hot for lust, and pride, and gain, and cold for God and you Salvation? and to obey God so far as will stand with your outward prosperity, and as the flesh, or your other Masters will give leave? This is an Opinion that never accompanied any man beyond the grave.
Do you think to be saved by all that devotion, which gives God but the leavings of the flesh and world, and by a Religion that gives him but the outer rooms (when pleasure and gain are next your hearts) and that makes him but an underling to your Covetousness and Ambition? Think so if you can, when you are gone hence.